Meeting at the Belfast School of Art at Ulster University, students will have a tour of Rachel Wharton's studio on the 7th floor. Open to postgraduate creative writing and poetry students.

Rachel Wharton is a graduate of the Manchester School of Art, and a recipient of the prestigious Freeands Foundation Studio Fellowship. As part of her Fellowship she has been resident in Belfast School of Art, with mentorship from Dougal McKenzie and Louise Wallace.

This tour is part of the Ekphrasis Project and follows on from conversations around the Joseph Beuys exhibition in the Ulster Museum. Beuys' lectures in the Museum and the Art College in 1974 were significant moments in the local art historicial record.

Writing and Art

Each year we collaborate with the Ulster Museum and their curators on a series of seminars and live events, and publish a pamphlet of new poems written by our students in response to artworks from the Museum's collection. New poetry, and prose, written in response to the Ulster Museum's Joseph Beuys exhibition will be published in a new pamphlet in Spring 2025.